Button.



W. A. TETLOW.

BUTTON.

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WILLIAM ALLEN TETLOW, OF SALEM, OHIO.

BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dc. 8, 1908.

Application filed April 20, 1908. Serial No. 428,044.

To all 'whom 'it may concern:

` Be it known that I, WILLIAM ALLEN TET- LOW, a citizen of the United States of America, residingv at Salem, in the county of Columbiana and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to buttons of that type commonly styled bachelor buttons.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide a simple and inexpensive button; second, to obviate the necessity of sewing a button to a piece of fabric 5 and third, to provide positive and reliable means for securing a button to a iece of fabric.

I attained the a ove objects bya structure that will be presently described and then s ecifically pointed out in the appended c aim.

Referring to the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view artly in elevation of my button. Fig. 2 is a p an of the disk forming the back of the button. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is a plan of a cap holding disk. Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 6 is a plan of a cap constitutin the front of a button, and Fig. 7 is a vertica sectional view of the same. i

In the accompanying drawings, l desi nates an inner attaching disk provided witl a plurality of pins 2 extending at right angles with respect thereto. These pins are adapted to extend through the piece of fabric 3 to which the button is to be secured. p

The reference character 4 designates an intermediate circular cap coupling member having openings 5 formed therein Y and through these latter are adapted to extend the pins 2 when the button is secured to a garment. The member 4 is ada ted to be secured to a cap 7 for cou ling t e latter to the attaching disk 1, the Ilatter being positioned against one inner face ofthe fabric while the member 4 is positioned against Y the other face of the fabric and inclosed by the cap 7 which has projecting from its inner face an interiorly threaded collar 8 of less diameter than the cap 7. The collar 8 is adapted to receive the member 4 which has peripheral threads 6 for engagement with the threads of the collar.

When the elements of the button are set up with respect to a garment or piece of fabric, the'pins 2 extend through the openings 5 of the member 4 and are clenched upon the said members through the medium of the inner face of the cap 7, by such procedure the button is secured in osition.

The disc 1, mem er 4 and cap 7 can be made of metal or any durable composition, While the pins 2 are formed of a suitable metallic material which will readily bend.

Having now described my invention what claim as new, is

A button of the type described comprising I an inner attaching disk provided with a plurality of pins, a peripheral toothed circular coupling member formed with a plurality `of openings through vwhich the pins are adapted to extend, and a cap rovided with interior threads and adapte to receive and engage the threads of said member whereby said cap and member are connected together and the pins clenched upon said member for connecting the disk thereto.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM ALLEN TETLOW. Witnesses:V

' JosEPH THORP, CELIA TEORP. 

